Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Author
Serrano, Artur R. M.
Author
Capela, Rúben A.
Author
Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-23
4353
2
201
256
journal article
31353
10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1
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Chlaenius
(
Lissauchenius
)
goryi
Gory, 1833
Distribution in
Angola
(Provinces):
1)
Lunda
Norte
?; 2)
Malanje
,
Kwanza
Sul
.
Material
examined.
Kibundi
(
15 km
N Nambua
) (
8° 56´15´´ S
,
16° 03´52´´ E
,
1164 m
alt., 95) (
MALANJE
),
19.XI.2015
,
1♂
, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
;
Alto Ventura
(Faz. Monte Café) (
Calulo
) (
9° 59´15´´ S
,
14° 50´12´´ E
,
1086 m
alt., 128) (
KWANZA
SUL
),
30.XI.2015
,
1♀
, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
.
Remarks.
A
species widespread throughout Africa south of Sahara (
Senegal
,
Gambia
,
Guinea
,
Ivory
Coast
,
Cameroon
,
Burkina Faso
,
Chad
,
Democratic Republic of the
Congo
,
Burundi
,
Rwanda
,
Zambia
,
Zimbabwe
,
Uganda
,
Kenya
,
Tanzania
,
Ethiopia
,
Eritrea
,
Yemen
) (Insectoid.info 2017), but not recorded to
Mozambique
,
South
Africa
and
Namibia
. It was reported for
Angola
by
Alves (1963)
. However, the data given in this work (locality, date) for the species seems similar to the specimen which was identified as
C. deyrollei
(see the precedent species) by
Basilewsky (1955)
. The female adult specimen (first locality) was found in the edges of a countryside road within an open secondary forest while the male adult specimen (second locality) was collected within the litter of a secondary rainforest. Both adults were found together with adults of some tiger and ground beetles [first locality: e.g.
Dromica
(
Foveodromica
)
sp.,
A
. optimus
,
A
. distinctus
,
D. tarsalis
,
C. magnicollis discrepans
,
G. procera capelai
n. ssp
.
; second locality:
Dromica
(
Foveodromica
)
sp.,
L. wellmani
]. These new data confirm this species’ presence in
Angola
and extends its distribution to
Malanje
and
Kwanza
Sul
Provinces.